Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 4, 1875, Page 4

4 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATES OF SURSCRITTION (PATANLE TN ADVARCE). Pastnge Frepaid nt this Omcee. 2,00 \Weeks, 1 s 1.0 DA iare e B1L00 [ Beckir, 2 1 Handay Ten coplex, 11.00 donbleshector 1.0 Parta of & yous at tho same rate, ‘WANTED~Une actlve sgont in each town and village. $pecial arrangemoants made with sucti, Bpacimen eoples sent free, To prevent delay and mistakes, be and give Post- ffice add; 1, including State and County, Remiitancesmay bamade slthar by draft, rapress, Post- Of.coorder, or in registared lotters, at onr ik, TENNS YO CITY AURRCRINRRS, Daily, dellrered, Sunday excapted, 233 conta per week, Daily, dellvarod, Banday Included, 30 conta por weoks Aadress THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madieon born. Chlcago, 1M, TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. NOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randoink Olark and LaBalle, Emerson's Minstrels, oot batween M'VICKKR'S THEATRE—Madison streot, hotween Dearborn and Btate, Engagement of the Parisian Opara-Boullo Troupas ** Giroflo-Girofla,* ADADRMY OF MUSIO—Halstod atreot, botwean Mad- feon and Monros. Epgngemontof the Emily Soldene Troups. ** Madama Angot's htor. ADELPHI THEATRI roe, Varioty Entortainment. RXPOSITION BUILDING—Lake-shors, foobof Adams steost. Fahibltion of Palatings. "SOCIETY MEETINGS. ATTENTION, SIR_KNIGHTS,~§ Apullo Commandury, No, |l o Toy th B e Wititng te” Kotedon, our D7 ondor of the K. O, Ti. 1, W+ LUOK D, A, DARTIMAN LODGE, No, tbomn streat, corner Mone ad Conelave of (Fuesdas) oven. s and work oa nvitod, Heoorder, 9 A, F. and ‘A. 'lllo.‘,l Mad d Robey-sts, —~Regular co; nicat TElr Crdmadin) ovonien.wh B oiolochs “Forkhird De: £roe. Viitiag broh. oo Weleomy, iy, 4. a1, The Chicags Tribune, Tuenday Morning, May 4, 1875, The beauties of Credit-Mobilier manage- ment have been ngain illustrated, if the rtorics of the San Francisco papers are true, by the late wash-out on the Union Pacifie. It is stated thet the ombankments which TIIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, $15.67} for June, Ments were quiet and firm at 8}a for slioulders, 113c for short ribs, and 124c for short clears. Tinke froights wero dull and unchanged. Highwines wero in bottor demnnd and stendy, at $1.14 per gallon, Tlour was in fair demand and steady, Wheat was active and firmer, closing at $1.05 for May, and $1.07] for June. Carn was nctive and firmer, closing tame At 76jc cash and 7740 for June, Oats wero netive and 1o higher, closiug at G3{c for May, nad 84{c for June, Ryo was quict and stendy at $1.07. Barley wos quiet and stronger, closing at #1,24 for May, Hogs were in good detnand, and wero stendy at Baturday's quotations. Snles st $7.00@9.00. ‘The cattlo trado was quiet, with sales at $3.60@7.00, Bheop were inactive and unchanged. T T————— A curious gamo of Cross.pirposed was play- ed Inst night in Chicngo, At McCormick Hall a large assemblnge, mndo up of tho best brains, business capacity, respoctability, and wealth, hind como together for the purpose of declnring ngainst tho recent outrageous clection frauds whereby the will of the people” was defented by means of an organized conspiracy; while, half a mila dis- tant, the Common Council was engaged in defenting tho objeet for which tho mnss- meoting was called, At the very momont that earnest, thoughtful, able men counseled together to prevent the consummntion of o schemo full of danger fo the best interests of the peopla of Chicago, tho members of tho Common Council, acting in violation of tho cxpross commands of an injunction issued by the Circuit Court, were busily at work canvassing the ‘“‘returns” of an cloction which does not deserve the name, The anction of the Council was do- liberate, and was in nccordarice with the ndvice of the lawyers retained for the purposs of giving such ndvice. Under the usual practice, disobedience of n Judicial mandnto is not construed as contompt of Court whon an injunction is disregnrded by ndvice of counsel; and the Alderwen, therefors, aro probably safe, .for the present, from the clutches of tho jailer, were swept awny consisted of loose soil and alkali dust, which becomes mere mud when water pours upon it. No ‘‘raging torront” is needed to sweep it awny. It oozes away. The calverts, too, aro said to be althogether too small and wretchedly built, It was this sort of sham which was certified by dishonest officials tobo & ** first-clnss rond.” In connection with a decision by the Bu- prome Court of the Unitod States in tho caso of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad against the State of Maryland, the Conrt took occasion to considor and pass upon the correlntive and vastly moro important question of the power of Congress over inter-State comumnerce. The decision, of which an abstract is given in our Washington dispatches, coming from a full Beuch of the Suprome Court, is tho first do-' liveranca upon tho subject of Congressional control over the commerco betweon the vari- ous States of the Union. It is conclusively declared that the United States is ns one Btate so far s commerco is concernod, and that Congress, under tho Constitution, has the power to interpose its authority to pro- vent the impedimentlor restriction of com.- merco by State or local enactments, ‘Worretsy has tomod up again, Whether the ex-dutoctive hos experienced a chango of hieart, or is contont to plnco his faith in tho sptness of tho peoplo to forgot much little affnirs a8 tho District safo manipulntion, is bard to tell, Certain it is that ho has onco wora reappeared at the Capital, and it is also cortain that Lo las designs upon somebody, that somebody boing, ac- cording to roport, the new Attorney- General, The latter gentleman is, it is snid, au eminently conservative man, and it is ovon hinted that his conservatism par- takes Jargely of thnt peculinr kind of caution sngendered by the rending of just such his- tory as tho District of Columbin made during the years 1878-4. Mr, Wmrerry's hankering after o sliore of the socret-servics fund of the Department of Justite is shared in by auother party, whose nome is unenvinbly counected with that gafe business, and {his other person s no loss than the great Nerrresum, who left tho District Inst summer for his own and tho District's good, Nerriesme, it is said, is oven willing to give up a lucrative business, it it shall becomo necessary, in order to shiaro with his old friend the fund before-mentioned. Tho goneral estimnto of Judge Prenneront’s shrowdness in business matters will be sadly ot fault if these two anxious individuals derive aid and comfort frowm Lis appointment, — Mre, Truton created u sensation in {le seandal easo yostordny, Immedintely upon tho assembly of the court she sent up a let- ter to Judgo Nrsox, with the request that lorend it nloud. Of courso the Judga do. clined to grant the request, and, of cournss, it was known to the inatigators of this ex- traordinary proceoding that he would so de. cline. The purport of the communication Judge Nenson peromptorily rofused to make public for the present, at the samo time in: dicating a desivo that Mrs, Twron should pursus o elmilar course with regard to furnishing copies to the press until the Court hLad first taken some action in tho -matter. Of course it was whisperod abont tho courb-room that A, Trrzon's lottor ebodiod a petition o bo allowed to *tostify in the cas, togother with &n asgoveration of hor iunocence,—all, no doubt, in conformity with the programme, The presentation of tho lotter was not n sur. priso to some of Mr, Beromm's lawyers, though it was wholly unexpeoted by Mr, Tar. ToX and his counsel. It is diffioult to believe that the step wos takon by Mrs, TrutoN on herown rosponsibility ; she hus beon too com- fortably cared for and too closely watched by the Plymouth peaple to do such » thing without the knowledgs or against the wishes of My, Brecittn's friouds. 'Tho inferonco is irregistible that ihin letter ‘w3 written for the purpose of bringing to bear upon the jury, in, and out of the court-room, the moral effect of Mrs. Trurox's spparent desiro to bo heard as & witness in the caso, and thus to ovorcoms the unfavorsble im. pression prodnced by the refusal of the do. fondaut's counsel to receive her testimony; and also to wurreptitiously convey to the jury and to the world her protestation of inno- cenco, without subjecting her to tha crucial test of crous-cxamination, Tho schema bears the finger marks of Traoy and Buranway, and will result in positive *injury to Mr, Brecmen's intereat, ‘The Chicago produce markets were gen- erally strong yesterday,: oxcept in provisions, Mesa pork was dull and 5o per brl lower, dloging at $32,00 cash, and $32.90@22,25 for Juns. Lard was quiet anda shede easior, sloaiag o @150 per 100 lbs omsh, aund The froudulent election s consummated &0 far 08 the power of tho Common Council extends, but the tax-pnyers naud lawful electors of tho City of Chicago have not lost their rights on this account, If there is such a thing a8 an election Inw on tho statute- books of Iilinois, thoy still have a remedy, and tho tone of lnst night's mass-mesting in- dientes that tho interposition of the law will be invoked to the uttormost beforo this con. tost is ended, T — THE PLANTATION gxggmzss IN TENNES- ‘We trust our readers have perused the very interesting and graphic letters of our corre- spondent now in tho Southern States, Mis lotter published in Tur Tmnune of May 1 gives n very thorough view of tho present condition of the labor troubles in West Ton- nessce, The lnnd for a long distance on the rond from tho North to Memphis is desolate,— in fact, abandoned. It is cotton land, and hitherto has been succossfully cultivated. It Lins boen washed bare of its cotion-producing soil, and, according to the Southern policy, has been aboudoned for mew lands. This landy,ns was explained by a planter, can be rechnimed. A singlo crop of clover, turned undor, would make it valuablo for cotton; but no one will think of doing that, or of employing any fertilizing agents. Cotton is their meat and bresd, and, 08 long as there are now lands to bo worked, no ono will give the lenst attention to ‘re- claiming that already oxhousted. Tho cot- ton-seed of one crop would furnish the proper means to produco another erop from theso lands, but that the peoplo will not do; they sell the sced to the oil mills, and seck now lands, Thoy actually sell tho mnnure which Nature has provided to keop the soil productive. The gonoral ery is that “lnbor is demoral- ized." The demoralization consists in the fact tlat tho plnnters, who are tho lond-holders, insist upon perpotuating the Inbor.system practically ns it existed before the War, and to this the negro will not subuiit, Thore is 10 Iubor in the conntry but that of the negroes, Tho whites, ns & class, will not work in tho fleld. Thero are no whito Inborers to hirq. Tabor in the flold iy now a8 much regarded as a gocial degradation s it was beforo tho ‘War, Thero is a comploint that the Germans and Scandinavians who have gono there re. fuse to liva'in tho old cabins or negro * quar. ters,” will not nssociate with negroos, and go away, Thisthe avorage whitoman at theSouth caunot understand, Ha eannot comprohend how any man already sodograded ns to bo will. ing to work in tho fleld should be unwilling to livo in tho mud-cabins and associate with ne. groes, " o fails to undorstand that free Inbor dooa mot rogprd itself as degraded, and that the free laborer'of tho United States claims to bo socially tho peor of otlier men ; and that, it tho South is to bo repeapled by white labor- ers from tho North or from Europe, they will 80 thero tho ownors of the soil they cultivate, and tho founders of a social systam in which thoy must bo at tho top, The cotton crop in West Tonnesseo was lnst yoar a fallure, Tho consequonce ia that thore was but poor cowpensation for planter and Inborer ; and the planters are congratu- lating thomsolves on the prospect of largo crop of cotton this year, becauso the negroca maust work or starve, ‘I'he hard times, and tho choico betweon hard Inbor and starva- tion, seems to bo regarded by tho planters ag a providential measure to compel the negroes to work, Thig seems strango to n peoplo who look upon labor 83 & meaus of livel. hood,—whe work for tho product of their labor, and.who look to that.product as weans of supplying themselves. with com. forts, and of bottering thelr condition gen. orally, Our correspondent offors an explanation of this gonduct on the partvf tho planters, It scoms that they cling to tho old prido-and. poverty system of tho nnte-War dnys, 'The Plantors aro the nominal owners of the goil, ‘Thoy count the number of their seres, and expect to obtain from the land, after paying all expenses, from %25 to 45 an goro ; oone sequently the moro acrey thoy own the groater tho profit. Thoso profits, in tho old timos, they expended in tho most prodigal manner. Thaownor of an linmenue planta. tlon waa aleo tho owner of tho labor to cult. vate it; ho lived like a prince, hud soon learned to think he was ono. The general plan was to spend ench yeur's income within the year. Tho old stylo waa for a planter to have o factor or commisslon-merchant, This factor received tha crop nnd sold it, aud wos the bankgr and the agout of the planter, The planter expended thoe wmonoy, In case of short crops, the #oma expenditures wero made, the factor uuking advances, This syeter theso planters still presorve, They will not past with an aore of the land, Thoy will work it on shases, or otherwlse, AY 4, 1875, but thoy look to an annual product per mevo. The laber, heing free, is more oxacting. Tho negro in slavery worked with bia wifo and children in the cotton-fields, got- ting his food and the use of the mud cabin, Ho now works himself, but his wife and chil. dren do not, and he trics to get ns much for his own labor ns will support the wife and children, gt them more and bolter clothes, onablo the childron to go to echool, and per- mit him to bo n church momber, and takon littlo interest in politics. "Theso oxnctions of the free negro Inborer reduco the profits per ncre of tho planter, and he declares that the * labor systom is demoralized ; that tho negro must bo got rid of, aud his placo sup- plied with whito laborers from the North." o hins tho unnatural dream of gangs of whito men working tho year ronnd for their food, living in mud huts, with the women and children at Inbor, indiferent to schools, and churches, and politics, and accopting the condition of rocinl inferiority n# helonging to that of labor. Tho Southern planter ex. pocts and is waiting to witness tho verifien tion of that dream | Tho planters of West ‘Tonpiosseo have their factors in Memphis, Tho planting season bogins the 1st of March, and continues un- til Decernber, During this time tho planter employs his laborers, farnishing them with bacon, corn-moenl, and othor articles of food; theso articles aro furnished Lim by his factor in Memphis, this factor charging him there- for, in addition to the cost of the goods, 1 per cent a month, At the end of the year, the negroes tako thoir shares of tho cotton, and the rest goes to the factor, who poys himself all his advances with interast, and the Lalance, if any, stands to the credit of the planter, who, however, has been living during the same year on his expectant shara, In 1874, thero was s short erop, leaving tho planters largely in arrears to their ‘fec. tors, and, when the crop of 1875 in delivered mnext fall, thoy, in ad. dition to' the two years’ advances of money nnd provisions, will owe 18 per cent interest on the debt of 1874, and 6 per cont interest on that of 1875, The negroes shared in the losses of tho short crop of 1874, and will sharo in the profits of the full crop of 1875, What these profits are, our corro- spondent says, aro an aggregato of from $110 to $200 for the nine months' labor. With this monay, a large port of the nogroes move away to tho furthor South overy year, so that the actunl number of laborers is gotting smaller every year, i The practical peoplo of the North will recognizo in this condition of affairs the struggle of 5 landed aristocracy to rotain its supremacy. Tho struggle is a vain ouo.; Free labor of necessity domands, and will do- mand, a larger share of the product, and tho increasing lions of tho factors for advances to the non.producing owners will forco uot only o sale of these lands, but their division into comparatively small traots, each owned by the lnborers that cultivato it, When this time comes, the now vacantlands will be taken up, and will be closely cultivated ; tho State will be peopled by producers ; the aggregate production greatly incroased, there- Ly adding to tho wonlth of tho State. This populntion will ba free, will take control of the political affaira, of tho State, will intro- duce thrift in the place of waste, nnd becomo the socinl, commercial, and political rulers of tho re-gatablished South, In the meantimo, lot the planters dismiss tho delusion under which they live, that freo labor will ever migrate to Tonnessoo unloss it goes thera to own and govern tho soil it cultivates, and to maintain o socinl position admitting of no superiority. WOMAN AND WORK IN OHIOAGO. Bome years ago, various suffrage-meetings wero held in this city, and wore well attond- ol. Wo wera duly informed that the Mil- lenninm would como to pass just ten minutes nftorSanau and Saxves, Jave and Jonx, went to tho polls togother, Feminine orators told us, with the beantiful modesty supposed to bo characteristio of their sex, that their drop- ping ballots into & box carefully stuffed over- night would at ouce eradicato tho social evil, the drinking ovil, and overy other evil, All that was wanted to make overybody happy nd everything all right was o law, —just one little law. We learned then, for the first time, that tho women of Chiengo yearned for publia life; that they had fitted themselves for it by dili- gent toil; that they were studious, alert, ‘‘womon of affairs,” and far better qualified than their fathers, husbands, and sons, for tho ugo of the ballot, This flurry of excitement happened somo ten years ngo. It is worth while to inquire what theso women, who wera then so ready and so fit for the ballot, hnve done in tho decado since. An thoy were partly excluded from a political career,—only partly, for they had tho rights of argumont, of persuasion, of remonstrance, of associntion, of petition, and of rovolution,—their over. {flowing cnergies, repressed in ono direction, must naturally have burst forth with greator violence in another, What, thon, havo they done? methods for redesming fallen women and for Aystematizing the charity which is now mnk. ing Chiengo a favorite abode of the pampored pAuper, but thoy did nothing. They might havo axorcised potent influence in behalf of tho compulsory-cdnoation Inw that hes just missed passing in two Illinols Legislatures, but this grave question was not, it seoms, of any intorest to theso * public-apirited” per. fons, Thoy might have opened temporance billintd-rooms and similar resorts, and so fought tho mnsculine sin which wrocks B0 many of their lives with romo. thing more potent than aftornoon meotings or potitions to the Common Council, Thoy might have formod volunteer Outsido of the many happy and unhappy homes duo to their efforts, the consideration of which does notonter into tho seope of this article, it is very difficult to discover an an- swer to this question, Possibly as ANy as twonty feminine Chicagoans have beon brave enough to study & profession or art, and then pursue it, Onoof thém has just had pub. liahed, in Now York, one of tho best sclentific books for tho young that lias ever come from tho press, Chicago women, teo, have organ. izedy varions societies for public purposes, most of which are dend, some dying, aud a fow giving some promlse of continued exlst. onoo and possiblo good. ‘Tho most pretentions of thom all was broken in two by sectarian and personal squabbles, and ended by dis- gusting almost everybody connectod with it, ‘There hns beon the usual number of petty churel fairs and kindrod operations, and one athor largo falr, with & disappointment for arcsult, Buch credit as any of thesa may dosorvo belongs mainly to women, ‘This {s what Chicago women have done, Tha catalogue of what thoy might have, but Lave not, doue, is somewhat longor, They might have organized in this city 8 commit- tes to take charge of local oxami. nations of gcholarly women by the authorities of IMarvard College. They wora roquested to do so by the authorities ; they knew, or would have known, hnd they boon intelligent enough to read g dnily nows- paper regularly, that such committoes Lave doue a very groat work for women in En. gland; and they Lad months and months in which to discharge tho easy task, Byt they did nothing, ‘Thoy have beon clamorous in spoech for equal ‘educational chances with mon; but, when ono of the groat collegen in the country took steps toward ULringing about that equality, they frustrated the schemno, ag -|'far 0 Ohicago was concerned, by 1dly sitting still, They might have organized and carripd into exection reascuabls and truatvarthy committees to visit and report upon the city prisons, sohools, eto, Ono energotio woman in the East revolutionized the managementof 0 great prison in this way, But prisons and schools go wnvisited. I o cousclousness, perhnps oxaggernted, of their juability to un. dertako such reforms Lias kept the women of Chlengo inactive, this only carrics ns back a step forthor. For, if thoy nre public-spirited and feel incompatont now to trent public questions, of course thoy lnve:hoon busy studying in order to make themsolves fit, — TRACY, Mr. Tnacr, as counsel in the Breomen cado and oxawiner of witnesses, has occupied a position which is undonbtedly very plensant to bim, and ministored to whatever love of display aud notoriety ho may possoss ; but Mr, Tnaor upon the witness-stand, in the hands of Mr. Brac, cross-examiner, hias not been reposing upon o' bed of roses. In point of fact, Mr. Braon has literally flayed him, although his hide apparently had tho texture of tho rhinoceros, and ho lias placed him bo- fore the Bar and tho publicin a light which must mnke him befora long rise and explain or step down and out of Lis profession. In the coumo of his direct examination, Ar, TaAcy said : 110 [MOULTON] went ont of the room and was gone s few minutes,—porliaps fiftoen wminutes,—and roturned with Mr, TitTow, and Me, Ttrron ond I spoke, and theny 1 think, Mr. Trrzon procceded with fhio cone versation,—took up the conversation from that potnt, —and said something sbont my Laviog been called lnto this case without his knowlodge, or consent, or ap- proval; and hesald: #3r, Tracy, I am asked,” ot he rald, “Tam about to,” T am ot cerfain which, “to mako & staloment to you of my caso agalnsy Mr, Dizcnrn, Idon'tknow what tho ellquetto of your profecslon allows, If Imake o statement of my case qainat Mr, Dexonen to you, snd Mr, Brxonzn and ‘mysolf should aftorward come Into collision, would the etiquetts of your profesrion permit you to be a counsel Jor Mr. BERCHER T T ropliod: Mr, Tirto, without dlscussing what tho etiquotte of my profession would or would not allow, I say to you that, if o person hav~ Iug & controversy with auother comesto mo and makes » statement of his side of that controversy, and the parties should afterward coms Into collislon on that caze, Jahould not feel at Uiberty o be counael for exther party.” Theroupon Mr, Trutox unfolded, a3 I ro- member, & covering of manuscript which e brought with him into the zoom, and began 10 resd a state- ment, Hero we hiave it established out of Liis own mouth that he made a solemn promise to Mr. ‘I'turox that he would not nct as counsel for Mr. Beronzn, and, by virtuo of this promise, he obtained Mr, TrutoN's confidential stato. ment, and bas mnde uso of it ngninst him, Lnowing that Mr, TiuroN regarded it as cov- ercd under the seal of secreey, Tho cross- exumination has furthor shown that he heard onosido of tho case informally, assisted the Plymouth Church Committee in its one-sided investigation, and then went over to tho other sido and took a fee, and has appeared as Mr, Breonen's connsel since the incoption of tho caso, 'Tho axense which ho makes ia n sorry subtorfuge, He informed Mr. Titoy that lie should violato his promise because he (TiLroN) was going to charge Mr. Beecmen with adultery instond of merely improper propogals ! Blr. Beaon merellossly pricked this attempted justification by showing that overy Inwyer knows such proposals aro not netionable, and compelling Mr. Tracy to ad- mit its shollowness. Whatover may bo the isauo of tho Brrouen cnse, Mr, Tracy's caso isto bo tried before the barof popular opinion. ‘Whatever may bo the etiquotte that obtnins in the profession,—and we aro aware that there are lawors who justify his conduct,—the publio, which applies to Inwyors those prin- ciples of porsonal lionor which it domands of gontlemen, will condemn Mr, Tnaoy as o 1nan who has violated his word of honor, and mado uso of communications given to Lim under the pledgo of secrecy. Unless ho can make a moro valid justification of this con- duct than ho has yot done, thers nre those who will consider him as unworthy to practice tho profession of tho law, and unwortly the confidence of gontlemen. ——r——— BRAINIAL F0OD, Muddle-lioads, woodon-hoads, and block. licads will be Qelighted to loarn that aphi- lonthropist has arisen'in New York City, who proposes to dovoto his time ni.d onergica to thoir bonofit, Hisnamoia Dr. 7T, B, Lisment, Mis mission is to increaso brain.power by o now systom of feoding. ‘The pabulum which he furnishes, and with which ho proposes to brighten up tho intellect of tho unfortunate, is styled “Lrainial food.” A fow days sinco, he gave a dinner of brainial food at n prominent restaurant in New York to somo of tho most prominent muddle. honds of that city, tho monu of which was composed of tonsted cracker and toaated clicese, Oysters on the half-shell and cabbage, sardines, codfish and croam, oyaler-salad, stewed tripo and green pens, calvos’ brains on toast, oat-grosta and cream, pancakos (oat, buckwheat, and Graham meal), boiled cus- tard, apples and orangos, coffeo and butter- milk. We have no disposition to find fault with the Doctor’s theory, and his bill of fare is, aftor all, & somowhat appetizing one, The sciontifio men, among thom Acissiz, long ago demonstrated that flah contained o large amount of phosphorus, and that phosphor- usis a stimulant for tho braip. SufMcient Proof of this may be found in the startling amount of {ntelloct to be found at Black Taland, Marblehead, and Yarmouth, whors ,tho etaple articlés of food aro soup and soup- paug, codfish and haddock, hake and good red herring, the latter exerciving on unusually stimulating phosphorio effact as thoy are onten, hend, bones, tail, and all, We might also instanco the clear intellocts and marvelous brain-power of the Esquimaux and Greenlanders, who lve upon blubber and whale-steaks exclusively, angd ara fairly lus. trous with phosphorio brain-power, Chowse tonstod has long heon famous uotonly as ase- ductive fare for rata and mioe, but also for ita properties of atimulating digestion, and noth. ing is easier of digestion than toasted crackers ond oat-moal, What tho Doctor's idcss may bo aa to tripe, or what part it playsin making broing, we know not, but the calves' braing on toast are suggoested, wo preswne, upon the howeopathio principle,—similia similibus cu- rantur, Bo foras the component parts of tho Doc#ér’s programme are conoerned, the plan looks entioly feasiblo, 1 it slall prove suc. ceustal in Now York, whore there is ample material o work upon, we hope the Dootor will take & contrach’ for Chblcago, Thato are the Mayor, the Common Geunall, tho County Commisslonors, tho Chicago Z'imes, and numerous other public institu. tiona neoding intolligenco and plosphorus, and, if the Doctor can provide them with brains by his process, tho gonoral publie will undonbtedly provide the mnterinl, ovon though it may tako whalos and loviathans, all tho onts in the Chieago olavators, and all tho onlves' braina in the Btook-Yards, Ifho is tho philanthropiat he claims to Lo, his mis- sion will be incomplete until ho has given Chicago a call. THE OANAYL BUSINESS FOR 1875. The clinrges at Buffalo for handling grain hiave been for sevoral years 1 cent paid by the grain, and onc-fourth of a cent pald by the vessel, per bushel. This is tho ehargo for transfer through clovator. Wo understand that offers have been roceived from Buffalo and Oswego to contract for.n reduction of this rate to three-fourths of a cont por bushel. We suppose this offer is mndo ns an inducemont to forward grain by the cannl, ‘Tho Buffalo Commercial, spoaking of the canal trade, enys: By reforence to tho table of avarago canal frelghts, 1t will bo obssrved that the lowest aversgowas 10 conts, thatof last scanon, Tho rallroads sre now carrying graln from Buffalo to New York for 8 centaa bushel, This ia lower than the actual cost by canal at tho pres- entrataaf (oll, Thero Iano prospect that a much higher figure will be obtalned whon navigation opons, ad {f such proves Lo be the caso boatmen will not At outatall. They will not commenco operatlons with A positive loss staring them jn tho face, Unless re~ Mef comes in the abinpe of lower tolls very littlo grain wiil bo shipped by canal this soason. Will those who objectto roduction of tollson the ground that it would reduco the revenues please toll us whera tho rovenues would coms from in casa thore should bo no shipmenta whatever by canal 7 ‘This indicates that thoe elevating companies of Buffalo begin to view with alarmn tho de- clinoin canal transportation, and offor the utmost concossion on their part to keop the trade olive. Tho fact that the railronds aro nowmoving grain from Buffalo to New Yorkat 2 conts per bushol less than the lowest froights of the low ratos of 1874, and aro doing this before tho caual opons, daca not arguo woll for a profitablo season on the canal, But thero is snother point where, so far, thero have boen no concessions made to savo tho grain trade to the canal and to Now Yorlk, ‘Tho charges in tho harbor of New York for tho transfor of grain are nover loss than two nud n quarter conts por bushel, and froquontly much greator. Tho handling of grain in Now, York harbior, as woll thnt in canal-boats and that in cars, is & disgrace to the city. It has beon so extortionate that uch of the diversion of trado from New York City may bo traced to that outrago. Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimoro, and Mon- tronl make ‘no euch confiscations of grain shipped to them, Bo high aro'the oxpenses in Now York harbor for woighing, tugging, domurrage, lighterago, and transfer, that grain can be moved to cither Baltimore or Philadelphin by all rail, and put on the foreign vessel, for decidodly less money than it can be sonb by all waterto Now York City, and transforred in that harbor; while to Mon- treal, by all wator, thoro is evon o greater ioargin ngainst New York., But nobody in Now York City proposes any doparture from the old system practiced in the days of OuINTON, - The Bostonians are preparing to enter the field ngainst Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Montreal for tho trado which is leaving New York, Thoy understand in Boston that commerco no longer holds an oxclusive mar- ket in Now York, Chicago and tho West generally import their own goods, and deal diroctly with the Now England manufacture ora, Tho trado of the Weat now goes ronnd New York. The West has Baltimore, Philadel- phia, Montreal, and Boston to which to sond its surplus products. When Boston owns undcontrolsnmllwaymutedirecu‘ramCldcugu to Boston, she will bocome the groat diatrib- uting point for all Now England of tle bread- stuffa and provisions of the West, and will bocomo the market wheroin tho West can deal directly with the manufacturers, All this portends tho decline of tho Westorn trado through and with Now York City. Tho policy of tho State of Now York, and especintly of Now York City, Las boon most suicidal, It has used the Erie Canal as means of rovenue to tho Stato, and as the gourco of a corruption fund which for thirty years hos beon divided among ita politi- cinns of both parties, It has squandored $50,000,000 of not rovenuo received from the Erie Conal, and hos paid to froudulont contractors perhaps an equal sum, loaving tho canal with compara- tively littlo more capncity for business than it bnd thirty yonrs ago, The expendituro of one-third of the aotual earnings of tho canal upon its enlargoment would have mado it such n broad, deop highway of commerce, that nothing could compete with it. Some fow individuals in New York have now n monopoly of the “woighing, moasuring,” olo,, of nll grain received in that harbor by canal, and, sooner than break up this monop- oly, Now York City profers to soo the canal abandoned, and its trado divertod to Boston, Philadelphis, Baltimore, and Montreal, and tho transfer of its wholesalo trade in return goods to Chicego and tho other cities of the West. The depredations of the Spanish thieven who recently stole a saint by cutting him out of ono of MuniLro's plotures, and carried oft soveral Vinomy Manvs from the ohurches, are rivalod by the American art-thioves who on Baturday last stole four cnses of stat- uary just arrived from Europe, two of them containing vases, one a bust of Cioeno, nnd the other™a bust of the eminent lawyer, Cmantes O'Coxom. Tho thiayes, although of the same classieal turn of mind, do not seem to have possessed the courage of their Bpanish brothren, for, hav. ing opened ono box and discovered the bust of Mr, O'Conon, they incontinently closed 1t up ngain and dumpod it overboard, For Cronno, howover, they hod no such rever- ence, Tl great assallant of Oarmuawe, itis sald, went to the pawnbrokor's, and took his place, with a ticket hung from’ his neck, smong tho watches, fumily Bibles, ald clothes, and other plundor. It s pleasant to know that Mr, O'CoNon was rescued from g watery grave, and that Ciceno will probably bo rausomed from *“my unclo,” Menanwhile, it the thieves are ever captured, thoy ought to be prosecuted by Mr, O'Coxon himselt, consldoring the indignity which they put upon his bust. 3 The tenth general mosting of the Soclal Sci enco Association will ocour at Dotrolt on Tues-, dey, May 11, the Association remaining in sos- sion during the rest of the wook, The opening addreey will be dolivered by the Hon, Davin A, WeLrs, President of “tho Institution. Amoug other things, tho Asscciation will discuss, in de- tail, o subject of gruat importauce, the bealth of pupila in the publio schools, witha view to do- tertpinlog upon sozae spoclal systom of education sud sxerciso, Papers on * Intornational Law,” by Jaxzs 8, Axazcx, President of the Mlohigan Univgtalayy on *The Rioancial Paliey of Eo- gland and tho United States,” by GAMALIEL Inabrony, of Boston; on *Tha Financial Ex. periouco of Fianco,e Lesson to the Unlted Btates," by Gronum Warxen, of Springfield, Mass, ; and othor intorenting subjects will be road and disouessd, —_———— Briof referonce was mado n dayor two ninco to the contrast drawn by WenpELL Prureies be- tween Chicago and St. Louis. Tho following extract from s address on cheap transporiation mives it in sulls ' T1wo great rivern mergo at tho wharves of 8t, Lonts, Blio hina got tho richent”country belind lior i the world, minew, robl, aversihing, and St. Louls {n_no- Thera, whila Ghicago 48 Gfiy years ahioad of hor, Why fethint? Chicagoline nomimen, My falth fs thint Nelthor noll, nor rivors, nor minen énn mnko great cition, Dralnin makes great cltles, [Appisune,| It s tha English race that has uraggod commorca 600 milea ot 18 path and holdn it thors to-dny, Chicago isd the men, and Bt Louls hadn", Rho had tmid men, Yoalthy, bt timid, want of onérgy, want of pliick, Jrant of risk, and wo, wilh tho finoal natural ailvane tagen in tho world, she ia a centnry beliind, God mada hior rivera, ani that made her slvggard. Obleago bad to Iny down her fron rivers, and that mado her great, And it s u alguiticant fact, that although all the water couraca of tho Weat run aouth, no ratiroad that rana uorth and south aver mado atiy money, Tha molvent railroads i tho West vnn east and weat, becausa tho bralus are East and Went, and thoy need communica~ ton, Xow, thercforo, al{biough waare out of the line, yot wo hiva tho samo vloment that muie Clifcago and thint mukes England to-iny, only it wants to be brought into organlzed effort, [Applauso,) —_—— Thore waann oxplosfon of powdor in San Fran« claco which resulted In tho death of several porsons. The local papers in recording the ovont tind it nocessary to comment mora or loas roproachfully upon tho nuthor of the mischiof, of which commonts, porhaps, the following is tho most forcibie: The oxplosion which cost so many persons thelr llves was caused byn spark from s pipe, which the fnan CLADE Was smoking, dtopping into ome powder, They need uot look for CLARK'S braine; but when they ot tho reat of him together they ought to bury the fragmenta in & prominent square, nud erect ovor them & monument containing (o inscription: * Sacred to tho memory of & d—d fool [ It tho peoplo of Yan Franciaco bogin telling tho truth about one snother ou grave-atones, thoy will have to adopt the vulgar oxpedient of numboring their dead to avoid confusion, and furnish the visitor at the comotery with a cata~ logue. —_— Mr. HOexnr . Bowntren, Chairman of (he Maasachusatts Board of Health, is i favor of puvishing drunkenness by placing the drunkard undor political disabilities; For tho crimo of being drunk in public he would doprive him of hia civil rights for six months, and one such ex- Libition should be conuidered satisfactory proof of habltnal drunkooness, Unlons there is some miatako in tho police roturns and other statistica from Massachugotts, Mr. Bowpiton's propo- sition, if put into effet, would speodity roduco ' the vota of that State to thatof o single pro- cinot, ————— FOLITIOAL NOTES, Attornoy-Qenorsl Pisrrepont s said to bo In {avor of I'rea Cuba, But it is not a mattor thas Lo will bave much control ovor. Bosides, thera 18 no authority for the statemant, if Mr. KrLrey goés oo improving, ho may in Yho courso of timo be induced to express regrot for bie votes in favor of a dopreclated currency aud & protective tariff. He is very morry sbout his Fores bill vote. A Tho Massachusoits Legislatnro haa under- taken an [nvestigation of tho State-Houso con- tracts. It has already sucertained that tho work lacked adoquate suporvision, sud tuat tho rosult is simply disgracoful. ‘Che Massachusoits ultra-temporance men de- nounce the License law which wont into opora- tion lnat Saturday aa * o disaster and disgrace,” and predict its utter falluro. Thoy will ane tagonizo it at every poin:, labor for ity ropoal, and meantime mako no efforts towsrds its on- forcement, Wautzn L. Besstons, tho ox-Congressman who is secking s nomination to the ‘yaoancy in the Thirty-third New York District, was among the fow ount-and-out Inflationists in the Now York delogation to the last Congress. Tha Zlvening Post believos hia re-elootion would bo & disgraco to the whole State, An English photographer who triod to tako & plcture of the King of Siam, found himaelt in [3 quandary, Tho etiquotto of the country forbade his soizing tho Rloysl subject 28 ordinary pho- tograpliers do, and Lis Majosty refused to obey the instructiona of the foreiguer as to attitude, Tho situstion was roversed. The Kiog waa a Pposer to the phiotographer, The District of Columbia dobt is upwards of 20,000,000, or 26,000,000 moro than Prealdont Gnanr's ostimate, Tho oxperimont in Municipst Govornmeont conduoted by Boss Buzpmenp s thus sho wn to have baen rathor dear one, It will not have cost too much, howaver, If it shall tosch tho American people how to secura an honeat aud efticiont administration of city affalra, " It s nelther sofl, rivers, or wealth of laud, but brains, that make great citios," says Wrx- DELL Pumuars. ' Chicago bad mon of braina while 8t Louis bad not.” Now wait and sce Chicsgo nominato PmiLuirs for somothing or other,—Bufalo Ezpress. Wo nominate bim for Ohof of the Directory, Hia ability as an in- flator might show to some advanisge in thiat posltion, Bpeakor McQurme, of New York, s almost as bad & presiding ofcer as our own HaiNes was. Mo {8 accustomed to come down from the chiair on very slight provocation, and make intompor- ato harangues on bobalf of the Canal Ring or for any othor favorite homay have. It {s not unusual for him to make a violent personal sault on & momber of the other Houss, or on tho Chief Executive of tho State, The Philadelphis Pressinsista that the Con- tounial Exposition elialt bo kopt froo of politioal entanglomonts. It does not regard the proscnt as the proper time for advocating ** the poeuliar thearies of politieal economy * which prevail in DPennsylvania, The American poople, the Press believes, are williog to walve all prejudice and o to the utmost verge of concesalon to place the oxhibition on an internstional plane, eatiraly beyond tho domaln of politica, Tho existing political situation in Californis is s poculiar ono, It is parploxing for the poli- t{clons, but eucouraging for the people, The necesaity for making good and unoxceptionable nominations is stroogly impressod on all the party managers, and the result will probably bo 8 good Government, whichever party wins, ‘The Independents would like to confine the can- vasa to local issues, but they are not likely to be accommodated, both the Republicans and the Domocrats showing fight, Tha soloction of Mr, Piznseront for Attor ney-Genoral is an oxtraordinary move for & President who i bending all bLis encrgies to so- ouriug @ third form, Mr. PIENREPONT wae among tho first to dehounoe the propomtion, aud at an immenso weeting in Now York last Octo- bor put himeelf on rocord publicly to that effoot, pronouncing the cry of third term a **mad delu- eion,” which is prectsely what it has beon, Nev- ertheloas it fa as idlo to suppose that the Demo- crats will abaudon s ory which has produced such a scare, a4 it is to suppose thet many timid souls will not continue to bo in terror until the two partioa havo made their nominations for the TProaidential eloction of 1870,—Har{ford Courant (Jo Hawley's paper). (] The following correspondence, 8ayes the New York Graphic, sots st rest tho status of Frye anpo Woob in the Wa, it other fucts wore ro- quired than his costly contribution of the Mozart Reglment and his prompt sppearance at she Cooper Inatitute war mesting with John A. Dix sud otuers, Thesa lotters have never bosn published herotofores . Mazon's Orvios, New Yoxk, April 29, 1661,~8m: beg to Lendor my'scrvicos n aby mliitary capscity Sondlatont With 1y boalton s Magor of ooty With highregards, AMpO Woub, 1iis Excollency, AURAHAX LixcoLy, I sbove was written ouly & fow days after the bombardiment of Fort Bumter. The roply is eutirely in Mr, LiNcoLX's sutograph s WasixozoN, D, Oy May 4, 1871,~Fernande Wosd, i drnls dul iy, Yot Xid :rulh oy nfi!nn Sapeolly oamaistant '!u your poaltfon an Mayor of New York, in_ recetyed, and for -whicl: ploans accept my sincaro thanks, In (he i of my varions aud numeroun dusies 1 shail conslder in which way I ean mnake your mervices at ouee avallable tothe country and agraeable 1o you, Your nhedias servant, A, Lixcovy, 'The Crown Princess of Gormany Is an artist uf 0 littio talent, 3 Darzaa loft an nnpublished novel, which hay Juat turned up at Parls, Mr. Banxrs, President of the Boston Iandol and Haydn Hocloty, has realgnod. Hanny 8, Munooort is ongagod for the coming soagon at the Doston Globo at a big salary. Ono of tho Brooklyn jury has gained 20 pounds of meat siuce the trial commenced. ‘The Californla papera deny tho story “of tho drowning of J. A, BAWTELLE, tho actor, on Tuges Bound, Jonx C. BuxoxiNninoe fa atlll a causo of ans. foty to his frionds, Vico-Prosidont Wison Ly gono to seo him, Brioaxt faon hls marrow-bonos again, 11, donies having called tho managers of * Zion's Co-oparntive Morcantile Institution ” thiaves anj linrs, Professors Tioe and Loowia aro amusin: thomnolvos with a hoatod dlscuesion whether {rigorific waves come from tho oarth's surface ot abovo, Jaxza Fiax, Br., has brokon out ass pligrim to Palestine, and a littlo Now Engiand nowapap:r notices that he will write lottors from that fur oountry, Mr. Ronent Maxtey and wifo started yeater- day for New York, whoro thoy intoud to take the ateamor Cuba for London, Eng. Thoy ex. pect to raturn noxt fall. . Mr. Joseri Tuoger, Goneral Buperintendent of the Illinols Central Railroad, has gono ta Cairo on business connoctod with bis rond, 1o will rotarn in & fow days, The Glastoubury (Conn.) sisters, Anny and JULIA BaiTy, are again totho front. One of thiom i wo disgusted with the male sox that sho bhias transiated a Biblo of hor own, At tho firat mosting of tho nowly-slectued Board of Trustoos of thie Atlantio & Pacifle Te'o. graph Company at Now York yeatorday, Mr, I3, D, L. 8weer, of thia city, was ro-clooted Hecond Vice-Prosidont. 3 Yico-Presidont Wrrson roturnod to Loulsville from Loxington yestorday, and will remain there for geveral dass. From thore ho will proba Ay go to Nastvillo and Memplis, and thence pro- ccod on his Weatern tour. Bergt. BATES i8 going to Canads. Perhaps it Borgt. Barxs inaisted upon crossing the Fally on a tight-ropa nobody would sorionsly objeat ta bin doing go, and think of tho eclat it would give to the Amorican flag, Bates, Mr. I, L. Hypr, of tho 8t. Louin Republican, wason 'Chango yostorday, He* hias studied up the rocont romuarks of WrNprLy Puinries, und wiskies to go back with o Chicago reputation. At loast that is whas they HAY, A Lock Haven (Pa.) swaln gavo o twist to the ari of his lady-love. A cancor was tho resuil and amputation followod that, Sho was o tul- orors and needed that arm, but ho docs nol seom to havo takon tho hint, Was it not rather nraport in the Cincinnati newspapers of tho dolngs of somo of SoLvrNe's youug ladion {n that city and New Orloans which induced oo of them, thorein meationed Ly name, to attempt Lior own llfo ? Baron Bouwanz-Sexnonw says that his reslg- nation a8 Anstrisu Minlster to this country Loy been nccopted. No succossor has yet boon ap- pointed. Tho Baron intends making s tour of the country before roturning to Austiia. Or. Linpenway, Dircctor of the Mint, hat boen inatructed by the Presidont to visit Obicago, Bt. Loujs; Cincinnatl, aud other Western citios, with d%iew to sscortaining tho most dostrable point for the establishment of o mint, Mesars. PAuz, A. Mionattowsxy, of Odosss, tho Chicago of Hurope, and CoNsTANTIN GEn. or, of Bordisuk, on the Son of Azov, wers on 'Change yosterdsy. Our gralu trado and clo- vators have o raro intorest for both of thom, Brivins says nothing s so well caleulated ta presorve & becoming respect for tho dood as g neck and nock raco with a lang Catholie funora) from Thirty-first to Monroo street, over the torn-up, abysmal pavomen: of Wabash avenuo, That oxcellent gontleman, Mr. VAsQuez, loft alegacy of vengeance to his Lieutenant, Mr, Onavez, aud Mr, O {8 prepariog himeelf for a balter with & speed and persaverance whiclt fu- dicato hia roadinoss to follow his lpte lamented Captain, Tho Rev, Mr, Hasrvonp complains that the profanity and ribaldry of tho San Francivea Chronicle huve kopt out of his pocket 5,000 which Eastorn Christians would have contributed toward dofraying the oxpeuscs of his rovival meetings, The Grand Opers-Honse, Now York, hess closed also, Misa Apaxr Ricmuonn fs sick; Karie Maynew haa gone Wost; Mra, Duwy Is narsing an fuvalid brother: and MaTr Moroan publicly denles the rumor that bo will assume control of the house, 4 Haxs CizniasiaN ANpensex's birthdsywas en. thuainsticg!ly colebrated at Coponhiagen, and va- rious other parts of Denmark, The soulftom aro compating for tho Lonor of carving a statuo of im to be erected in the boautitul Rosenburg Gardens of Coponhagen, 8till swother gontloman, this time a resident of Clicago, has signifled his willingness to tiko up that $50,000 offer. It now looka as il tho most intoresting debate of the contury wili bo bLeld in this city, aa the beat talent wonlid doubt- lees be enlisted on both sidea. Forty-ono years ago a falr bride in Fulton County, N, Y., recelved as & wodding-proseut a 1arge and dedlcious choese, Since then the brida and all who attendod the wedding except the groom have died, and Friday, on the forty-firut nunivorssry of his marriage, the lonoly old man, Lis banguot-hsll deserted, for the first time cut and tasted the lonmely old cheess, * There's millions in it." Wo sre informed that Messrs, Gnavzs nud Looyis did not sell thelr fust trotting miro OLEMENTINE to Bupp DonLz, but to & geutlenisn residing in this city, who has placed Ler in Mr. Donrr's keeplng for the soason, The purchaser of CLexxNTINE doss not wish to beknown aa tho owner of fast horses, although he 1s the pos- seusor of several of the fleotent animals in tho country. ; g A young lady of the Wesloyan Female Bemi- vary at Murfreeaboro, N, 0., haa outdone Drs- 812 TURNER, » She got up io hor sloep and wau- dered down town as for as Col. Vaivoun's residence, and took up temporary quarters in hisroom. The sstoundsd warrior atartod oo & Tun for the Beminary, aroused the Rev, W, Srane, and they carrled the girl back, Bl *did not recollect ™ anything of the oocurrence , noxt day. M, pr ViLuzmessaxT, of the Paris Figaro, ina row with M, VEurLLor, of the Univers, boasted that 4,000 priests subscribed to bis paper, and in the course of the squabble appealed to the Bishops, 'The Bishop of Aixin replycondsmned the Fgaro as uaworthy of priest and laymsng and ibe Bishop of Paltiers declared it to be the most jmmoral of jowrnals. That's all the com- fort s newspaper man gots for cringing to the clorgy mn France, One of the conssquences of the overhauling of tho Times recently ia a rediutribution of peai- tiony in the offico, Bome of the changos show that the ghief editor begina to understand what ia nocoufiry to run s newspsper. Mr. ALex- anpen Borxiy, former managiug editor, 1a to be recallod from the Milwaukee Sentinel to his oid placo, whick will be ploasant nows to mo_bonl MaBTIN Russers will bo city editor; Mr, Noarae ur, the prosent city wdi will bandle the shears with customary intelligence ; Mr. J. E. OxAMBERLIN, the present news-sditor, will write the * breasy paragrapha™ formasly buils by Ms. Bussu.